Tacitus (c. 56/57-117+), considered the greatest historian of Rome, decided one day to attend a horse race for a bit of ancient Roman entertainment....
Emperor Constantine V was the son of Emperor Leo III of Constantinople (r. 717-741), a ruler who brought much-needed stability to the Byzantine Empire...
This painting, by the French artist Charles Meynier (1768-1832), depicts Polyhymnia (also known as Polymnia), a Muse from ancient Greek mythology. Although the title...
Heracles, the legendary son of the Mycenaean princess Alcmene and the Greek god Zeus, was a wide-traveling warrior, adventurer, and a general slayer of...
Pliny the Younger (c. 61/62-113) was a wealthy Roman lawyer, government official, and general statesman with an impressive network of friends in the empire....
Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1342-1400)
"It's men that are untrue
And women, women ever blamed anew.
I think it a pretence that men profess
They hide behind a charge...
